The Daily Zeitgeist - The WeekTrend Round-Up 6/5: Mark Zuckerberg, Brownsville, Apple, TikTok, RICO, Chris Licht, NASA
Episode Date: June 5, 2023In this edition of The WeekTrend Round-Up, Jack and Miles discuss Zuckerberg getting choked out at his first BJJ tournament, Brownsville experimenting with no cops, Apple's new AR goggles, the latest ...TikTok trends and slang, Trump possibly getting hit with a RICO, Chris Licht's Atlantic profile, and NASA's UAP panel: "Yeah, there's orbs everywhere"!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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hello the internet and welcome to this episode of the week trend roundup these are the top
stories you need to know heading into the week of no uh this we're not june monday, June 5th, 2023.
Anyway, welcome to the new era.
Welcome to the new era.
Yeah. Summer sketch.
Maybe permanent. We'll see. How was your
weekend? My weekend was good.
We went back to D.C.
Saw some old friends.
How was Joe Biden?
My wife did see Joe Biden.
We were walking back.
We were walking back on campus where we went to college.
And there was a dude setting up for a local news shot.
And I was just like, whoa, what's going on?
What's happening?
Who's this guy?
Who's this guy?
And he was like, the president's coming in 15 minutes to that church to go to like saturday
evening mass uh and we were like oh okay that's that's cool and sarah stuck around to to watch but
i i asked him like so what do you what are you hoping to get out of those he's like they won't
use it unless he falls down so if you could like shout his name yeah i was like yeah yeah we'll startle him and yeah hey
man you you mind taking this bucket of ky jelly and just dumping it all over the steps over there
i think i think we might get him to slip yeah but my wife saw him and uh said he looked good
spry strong strong as steel strong And completely confused as to where he was.
How about you, Miles?
How was your weekend?
I went to a movie for the first time since the baby's been born.
Her Majesty, she's on top of her social game, so she's like,
hey, I'm going to go out, I'm going to go out.
I haven't ever made plans to be like, can I go out,
and then you'll stay at home, and I'll try and do something?
And she was very much encouraging me.
She's like, you need to go do shit.
And I was like, no, this is cool.
I like being at home and stuff.
And I like being with the baby and everything.
You're starting to look like the old man
from the Unforgiven video.
Topical ref for all the kids.
1992 music video.
Metallica?
That's the one you're talking about? yeah yeah you remember that video though that shit was like burned in my heart because it's so dark like an old guy who like lives in a sewer
yeah oh yeah yeah i mean not quite there but yeah so i went and i went and saw uh spider-man
opening weekend first time i've done an opening like marvel weekend viewing so we'll
talk about that later on yeah we will it did incredibly well uh thanks to you no thanks to me
um but yeah it's supposed to be really good yeah it's supposed to be a banger but first of course
we have to open up with the story on everyone's mind yeah and that is uh our lord mark zuckerberg's new persona yeah uh he's he's
a bad man he's a badass he's a bad man as they say a role he's a bad him a bad man there's this
report in the new york times over the weekend that was just talking about his whole like macho
man aesthetic and like how he was posting a selfie with a flak jacket and he's like i did the murph navy seal challenge like 100 pull-ups run a mile
200 sit-ups 300 squats run a mile all while wearing a 20 pound flak jacket to like honor
the like fallen navy seal from 2005 and people were like oh okay then he also participated in
his first brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament recently and this is why we're talking
about that this because i'm just gonna read this one part this is so this is what the new york
times had to say and then it caused a shit storm in the zuckerberg world um apparently so he did
his first bjj tourney and one of his opponents must have overheard mark zuckerberg saying that
he walked out of anger management early because uh my, Mr. Mark, got tough guide, okay?
It said on May 6th, Mr. Zuckerberg competed
in his first Brazilian jiu-jitsu event
in Woodside, California,
where he defeated an Uber engineer
and won two medals and lost consciousness.
That's what it said.
What an adventure.
They go on, Jose Lucas Costa da Silva,
a veteran Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter who refereed one of Zuckerberg's matches,
said that he halted the bout after he heard Mr. Zuckerberg start to snore,
a sign of someone who has passed out in a chokehold.
Quote, this is something we are trained to know, said Mr. Costa de Silva,
who added that Mr. Zuckerberg was a good sport,
who was, quote, enjoying the moment.
So he said, yeah, man he got it happens it happens
sometimes you don't tap and then you get put to sleep
well guess what
he like did that and took it
in stride and was just like yeah I
too am human I'm not doing this to
make it seem like I'm not human
or like better than anyone right
yeah I got choked out like anybody
else would I'm not leoto
machida i'm not hoist gracie you know what i mean like what do you want me to do i'm marks oh wait
no this is just the following paragraph i think there was edited in this new york times he said
quote after this article was published friday afternoon both mr zuckerberg and his coach
mr camarillo reached out and said that the meta boss had not lost
consciousness. Quote,
that never happened, Mr. Zuckerberg
wrote in an email. According to Mr.
Camarillo, Mr. Costa da Silva,
who was the ref, quote, mistook his
students' effortful grunting
for snores. Uh-huh.
Sure, Jan. Yeah, I was just taking a little net
on purpose to get my power
ready to flip on this
dude and they just didn't didn't know my strategy and that's my fault i should have more clearly
communicated my strategy your shit's all choked up like yeah like some breaths might sound gurgly
snoring but i bet if you go limp and you're snoring i have a feeling that the ref who has
been doing jujitsu more than you probably knew.
Oh, okay.
He's out.
He tapped out.
The thing is, it goes on because of like meta people went out to other news outlets like the Daily Beast and also said, quote, at no point during the competition was Mark knocked unconscious.
That never happened.
Elena Widman, a spokesperson for meta meta told the daily beast yo he got the
the company's spokespeople involved like that you know what's even better then they go like
this is what was doing over the weekend oh then they go full like stalin polit bureau kind of
shit where they said widman who's the spokesperson, said, quote, a fellow Meta employee witnessed
the match firsthand and that
the referee in question, quote, apologized
to Mark and his coach after
the match for prematurely calling the match.
Wow.
Okay. You think
you would have heard something like that, but I like how they go.
According to one of the people
who depends on Mr. Zuckerberg
for their financial survivability, they said they saw the ref say, that was on me.
I'm bad.
I'm on drugs, and I don't know what I'm doing.
He's going to have a press conference where he's like, I apologize to my family.
I need to go into rehab now because I've made some big mistakes in my life.
There's something about narcissism
that doesn't allow you to acknowledge that you've been choked out um oh yeah there's also the famous
steven seagal choke out that he claims never happened but legendarily he was choked out by
somebody who was you know good at martial arts and he shit himself and right uh he he claims that
didn't happen didn't happen which i understand
that getting getting choked out and shitting yourself is uh it's it's a tough one it's a
tough one to take i can see yeah that jujitsu referee he remember when that that yankees coach
don zimmer attacked pedro martinez in that bench clearing brawl and like and then pedro like just
lightly guided him to the ground he's like you're like, don't fucking come at me, bro.
I'm a pitcher and you're an old man.
And then remember his apology press conference that Don's?
And he's like, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to.
Weeping openly.
Yeah, I feel like maybe that's where we're going to see the jiu-jitsu referee happening.
But don't worry, Mark.
I get it.
You never tapped.
It's all good.
There's also something about uh like i always
notice this in boxing when somebody's like out on their feet completely knocked out like everybody's
like oh my god please save this person's life yeah yeah the referee intervenes and the person's
immediately like what are you doing i was fine no bro you only you only had that because the bell
went and you realize you you're safe now
there's also like i wasn't asleep which happens to me sometimes where my wife's like are you
are you asleep no i wasn't i wasn't asleep where you don't think you were asleep but you actually
were asleep oh fully yeah i've i was caught doing that the other day watching tv and yeah that's
what i i do the aura ring and like to
track my sleep and that is one thing that i learned is like when i'm like oh man i was up
all night i got like two hours of sleep and then i like look at the sleep record and it's like you
slept for seven hours last night well what are you talking about wait so it just doesn't feel
restful yeah it just doesn't feel restful but you think you're getting less sleep than you actually
are yeah and it sounds like mark zucker think you're getting less sleep than you actually are. Yeah.
And it sounds like Mark Zuckerberg thought he got less sleep than he actually did in this martial arts tournament.
There's got to be someone with video, right? Like, if I'm at a Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament and he's like, the gym that fucking Zuckerberg, like, fights at is called, like, Gorilla Jiu-Jitsu Team.
Like, yeah, but, like, G-U-E.
And I'm like, this is all bad but i feel like you would just take video because you're like if this guy gets
tapped this is like this is money right here this is tmz right here but yeah you don't think they
like meta confiscated all phones the second anybody yeah it's probably like when nike got
rid of all those pictures of like a rod sort-Rod's steroid chest when he was
getting flabby pec muscles.
All of those pictures
were just scrubbed clean
from the internet because of Nike.
A-Rod is the most powerful person
in media because there was also a picture
of him going to the bathroom
that somebody took through a window that immediately got
scrubbed.
Can't happen.
Where is this Zipruder film of you catching Z's, sir? took through a window that immediately got scrubbed he's yeah can't happen he will disappear
you where's the subruder film of you catching z's sir i want to see it all right there's a
cool story in the new york times about brownsville so this is a trend that we were kind of asking for
during you know the george floyd protests you know, looking at communities that had put together programs
where 911 calls would be routed to non-police services. And, you know, Denver was trying it
out. And the New York Times did a pretty cool profile of like a program in Brownsville that was, you know, it's basically like a community,
a group of civilians with no arrest power,
but just who are regular people who other people in the community know and
respect,
um,
just step in five days,
uh,
every couple of months,
they basically take over for the police and the police channel all 9-1-1 calls
from that area to civilians and unless there's a major incident you know they just step in and
they've had incredible success uh the first half of 2023 homicides fell 50 shootings fell 25
grand larcenies of automobiles also fell even as it rose in other
neighborhoods and it's you know the police are cooperating like coordinating with them but they're
but it sounds like so they shadow them in case like things arrive to a level that actual like
armed law enforcement would need to be there so they're but the first line of defense is that
members of the
community are like intervening first to this like talk people to talk to people yeah exactly to talk
to people or like i remember that like there was a story that we talked about in eugene oregon
actually like had this for a long time like starting in the early 80s like a a program of
civilians and like it was just you know somebody who was drunk and needed to like get program of civilians. And like, it was just,
you know,
somebody who was drunk and needed to like get out of their house because they
were in a fight with their significant other,
like they couldn't drive anywhere.
And so these people were just like,
Oh,
you need a ride.
And it just gave them a ride.
And it like completely like,
you know,
helped solve the situation
in a way that if police show up with guns drawn
would have done the opposite.
And there's another story here
where somebody dropped off somebody
with paranoid schizophrenia
and who was really drunk
and they just kind of sat with them
for a couple hours and got them into a shelter.
And yeah, it's worth
reading we'll link off to it in the footnotes because it yeah it's just like all these kind
of common sense things that would be calls to the police in other situations like fights outside of
a bodega or something that like you know instead some people just come through and are like stop
acting like an idiot yeah yeah they figure it out i mean it's like well they tell your mom
kept a man from robbing a bodega people were turning in illegal guns they stopped a pregnant
woman from hitting a boyfriend who had not bought a car seat and a stroller as he had promised that
is so specific i know but i'm like kind of like damn bro you gotta listen man when
don't don't say you're gonna get that shit and not get that shit the stakes are high you need
the car seat fam yeah the new york times article is like i mean he kind of deserved it but we're
gonna say they're like yikes i mean what how could he possibly defend himself that yeah as he had
promised that sounds like it feels like
the next one would be like and another couple who was beginning to have a violent argument after one
partner was leaving dishes in the sink to soak overnight right yeah that's right it's like yeah
these are the kinds of things we're intervening in yeah they also offer services like free child
care addiction recovery like that so it's like there's a first
line of people who are like there to kind of you know help with conflict resolution and then there's
a second line of people who have experience helping people with all sorts of problems that
typically arise right in the lives of people so yeah usually just get funneled to the police right and it's so
it's it's it's just wild to think right like in any neighborhood like any person could imagine
like in my community we have people with all of these skills yeah you know like exactly that you
if it is just about investing your attention to your community like i've played peacemaker
plenty of times like i i feel like i have a i have a knack for talking to the youth uh it's like getting on their level
turning my hat around you know what i mean exactly and be like hey fella let's talk for a second but
i mean like you see how like again rather than just transferring all of these calls to people
who don't have any patience or any skills and just have weapons that yeah it makes perfect
sense that you'd see all of these sort of rights of these incidents that start to fall so quickly
and it just makes me feel like damn man like we really just only gives more credence to the fact
that like your own community is the best way to take care of your own community rather than
they're funding it's not like all volunteer they're they're funding it right a little like a little bit you know not not the way that it should be
but yeah not in the billions of dollars right but like i think they gave it 2.3 million dollars
over a couple years to like bring all these different organizations together and coordinate
it with police response but yeah i mean it's like it builds community it creates jobs that actually
make people's lives better which is like so rare uh it it just feels like such a such a no-brainer
that uh politicians would run on if if they were smart yeah it's also that wild thing where like
you know like a city loves to save money right and you'd imagine like this is probably so much cheaper than
like just a fully blown out militarized police force but then you're like caught in this rock
in a hard place of like but i like spending less money because capitalism but also the military
industrial complex that is now the police do i turn that spigot off yeah well i have a feeling that uh i don't know i hope that
more programs like this take hold 100 yeah put money back in into the community instead of into
like defense contractors yeah which is so wild when like you're talking like the how are they
like solving crime they're like i don't know offering people fucking child care yeah how about
that that actually helps a lot.
Addiction recovery?
You know, like, essentially, like, yeah, we have a table with social safety nets.
And that's how we keep everyone safe.
Okay, let's extrapolate that to the bigger picture, please.
All right, let's take a quick break.
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And we mentioned this a couple weeks back that Apple was rumored to be preparing to drop a new
reality on all of our asses they've been working on a headset a vr headset for seven years uh it
looks like ski goggles that are like opaque basically you know what it looks like it looks
like from fifth element the makeup visor that lilu puts on her face to put like all her makeup on i don't know
if you remember it they're just like this eye visor like because it's all futuristic and just
like put it to her face and then like removed it had a full face of makeup full face of makeup but
it looks very similar to that i know that's probably too specific of a reference plus fuck
luke bassan go on it wouldn't be if i had seen that movie or i think i saw it and didn't remember it i was just
thinking about it a lot because recently that but the can film festival people were talking about
like johnny depp's new movie and like how he like it's like made by this woman like myron who was
luke basson's like child bride yeah it was also the blue singer in fifth element anyway that's
why i had that all in my mind right now she was in the professional which was about like you know it was like very serious pedophile overtones and
like specifics uh and then he like had a child bride actress from that yeah and then he left
her for mila jovovich cool Anyway, all that to say is this headset,
but is it actually coming out today?
Cause I read that some,
like it's possible that the drops today,
but it's also possible they give their shook and they're like,
they might wait later,
but it seems like,
it seems like all the momentum sounds like today is the day.
We should acknowledge that everything we've set up to this point is paid
content from Apple was like all
right could you bring up this uh you know headset and also connect it somehow to luke luke bassan
they did ask for that it's sorted history yeah um but yeah i, the headset is expected to cost $3,000, which like the other most expensive one on the market is $1,000.
From who?
From who?
From Quest Pro.
Yeah, from, but the unchokeoutable Mark Zuckerberg's meta.
That's right.
Just want to reiterate that.
He cannot be choked out i actually like my yeah we're we're looking at the same article and my brain just
like doesn't like it just goes past meta as a word without like it yeah right can't go into my brain
it's turned off that word because i'm i find it so boring but yeah that's that that one's for meta
it seems people are very hopeful that this will like spur um developers to create like some killer apps
that will make this make sense but as of right now like it feels like most people are out on
the metaverse right like the vr stuff has just been for gaming i mean i think that they say
that there could be cool augmented reality
gaming stuff it seems like it's a lot of augmented reality again i'm like this is the the what from
what i've been reading i agree with every take i've seen from like tech journalists who are like
this is like this is so not like an apple thing you know there's nothing about it that's
revolutionary it's not it's not like creating it's not addressing like this massive need that we didn't realize it was going to fill especially with like a three thousand
dollar price i mean i get i don't doubt that it's going to be fucking cool you know what i mean i'm
sure it'll be fun or whatever like but like to the point where i'm like yeah i need to spend three
thousand dollars to have that i mean unless you have that kind of disposable income like i'm pretty
sure most people are going to fucking pass on it so so okay like one of the i think when we first talked about it we were looking at like this
heads-up display this hypothetical heads-up display that was like basically google maps but
right in your vision which seems like it it assumes a future where people are walking around
with these opaque visors on like down the street.
It replaces that.
So it's not it has like some of the stuff of like Google Glass, but instead of being see-through, it like replaces that with cameras.
Yeah.
Maybe like you got camera eyes.
Like that could be cool.
You could like zoom on shit.
You've got little camera eyes.
I'm not.
You're asking, I know you didn't quite literally ask this,
but you're asking what is an overlay app that you could get on board with?
Yeah, I'm trying to think of like,
facial recognition is the one that would help me the most,
but that violates people's privacy pretty badly.
Every idea I have is an absolute violation of privacy.
Because the only thing I'm, it's like, I want to indulge
the fact that I'm not a superhuman.
Which is like, I want to be able to read someone's
mind. I'm like, oh, what do you do? Where are you from?
How old are you?
I want to see a tidy
four-line summation of a person
so I can just jump to conclusions
very quickly and keep moving with my day.
But yeah, I don't know. I think it would be something like, where is this person from? person so i can just jump to conclusions very quickly and keep moving with my day but yeah i
don't know i think it would be something like where like where is this person from right what's
their name like sometimes i like walking around la and be like oh you're not from la where are
you from the midwest where are you from the east coast and it's funny when you see people like
like in la people like meet each other and ask each other like you have like such an east coast
vibe like it's something here's so much in la that i'm like what can i get a smoking cigarettes and giving everyone the finger
that yeah exactly yeah like east coast vibe to you where are you um anyways we'll see you know
maybe apple has come up with or will come up with some you know apps that will make this way cooler than it seems at
this moment it's just like the things that they've created in the past have generally been like when
they dropped the iphone it was like obvious what was cool about it like you didn't know buttons
right yeah that was the cool thing that was the thing like you just touched the fucking glass part yeah yeah motherfucker exactly and even like an apple watch you understood like
fucking the ipad even though in the beginning i remember i was like man this is a big ass iphone
fuck that cut to me like holding my ipad like at night as i go to sleep um yeah but i just don't
think with this i think just the cost chest
yeah it's just the cost and what it promises to do just doesn't feel life-changing at least for
like in my day-to-day life uh because it's not like it's like it doesn't seem like you could
safely like ride a bike with those shits on maybe that'd be cool but yeah i feel like that would
maybe be illegal like if i saw somebody driving i would be i mean like
i guess they're called pass-through cameras they're like that they're probably like work
really well like work better than the human eye but um i don't know it still worries me
no for sure i think i but you know we're gonna see some assholes like i can't wait for that
string of like viral images of people getting
caught wearing those things in
the weirdest places. Because you know, there's
Apple fan people who are
going to be lining up
and they're going to be like, yeah, I drive
a school bus with these on.
Alright, let's talk some shitty
TikTok trends.
Oh no.
We got tattooing.
So this one, I think we can just tell people you don't even have to click.
Yeah, you don't have to watch the video.
You can just move on when you see this one.
Because it seems like they're about to tattoo a toddler, like their baby child.
Here's the first line from an article on
inside it says quote videos of toddlers receiving fake tattoos have gone mega viral in recent months
sparking concern from tiktok viewers who seemed convinced the ink was real and like yeah there's
like a bunch of videos where you like it's like a tattoo gun you hear it going off they touch it
to like a little kid's skin and then like like you clearly see like a happy face being drawn on and then like 80 of the way through the video like a text card comes up
like before you freak out it's clear it's a marker and not a needle and it's not an actual tattoo i
just wanted you to believe it up to this point so i would get enough outrage views and there's
other ones of like other little kids like going to like a tattoo shop and like
picking out a tattoo and like getting their skin all prepared and all this other shit it's
it's just so fucking wild because it's just a bummer to watch because it's all
just they're doing it for outrage views um right and like but all you're doing is like
faux child abuse so that's what you're like it's like being like it's like be like pov you're starving your child
for the third straight week because he dropped your ps5 controller and then you're like before
you start thinking this is real it's not i'm joking that i'm starving my child because because
they broke a playstation 5 control it's a joke now move on that's the whole world is just scams
now it's just like we don't we don't mind anymore
like they're that did you see that like trump bucks thing yeah where they were like yeah
so good but like they open every video being like this is trump bucks is not legal tender
but then right right of course just go on to say that it's legal tender you know it's so funny
when we talked about that story both jacques
and daniel thought i don't did you see the clip from when he was when trump was up supposedly on
fox news talking about trump bucks and it was just a bad impersonator no i didn't see it oh my god
the clip is like and with these new trb trump bucks you will be rich and i'm like this is such
a bad impersonation and afterwards they're both like wait so he did that on fox i'm like god no y'all that's the worst impression i've ever heard don't
buy these you're fired yeah whoa he said he said come out there and i was like we should we should
buy those that's what you heard what he said for 99 $99, we can get $10,000 worth of Trump bucks.
Yeah.
That's a 100x deal.
But anyways, we've openly, like the scam is in, the idea of scamming is just in the bloodstream.
We don't care anymore.
We're just like, ah, they really got my ass with this waste of my 80 seconds watching
someone draw a happy face with a marker on their kid dog you got
me you got me i watched way too long of a video of someone tattooing a toddler
where my attention goes it's also unclear if the toddler knew it was not going to be real
because the toddler is like is it gonna hurt it's gonna hurt right no it's not gonna hurt it's gonna be fine um
just don't worry about it don't worry about it jack you know about tiktok slang yeah let's talk
tiktok slang which i knew some of this like i knew the there's some of this that is not tiktok
slang no just uh like long-term acronyms that people have been using for a long time.
Yeah, there's this list on, how do you say it?
Dexerto?
Oh, Dexerto.
Yeah, Dexerto.com saying TikTok slang, explain boomers, buckle up.
But like, I don't know what generation this list is intended for,
because there's clearly things that have'm like have existed since i was a
since i were a young person uh and then like other explanations that are a little bit more like yeah
i would say esoteric that if you're not on if you're not fully tiktok brained you might not know
um but like yeah i i don't know i was just like when it said what does ceo mean and it's like so
it's like tiktok slang explain the first one is
pov which has been around for quite a while but that's i get for that that's a form that's a
format or style of tiktok video is the pov one the description doesn't explain that like pov does not
actually mean what pov means in film like a pov shot in film is like you are seeing from jason vorhees's perspective
as he walks up whereas pov is like pov you're doing something like it it just seems like it's
not whose perspective is it i remember when i first saw them i was like but this isn't from
the pov of the person you just labeled this looks like it's a third party watching this
i was like yeah that's where my old
man brain was like man this ain't this ain't pov and then after a while i'm like okay we're using
it loosely like how we don't know how to say nonplussed exactly yeah we're just we're close
enough um they also have ceo which i was like oh they have a new meaning of ceo uh and the
definition ceo is a term that has of course
predated TikTok meaning chief executive
officer but thanks to social media
the term has taken on new meaning
to be the CEO of something means that you're the best
at the thing in question and is generally
meant as a compliment
what do you the CEO of would you say
if you're giving yourself like a
this rap shit
oh shit okay
I like that
I'm a CEO of asleep uh in a dark room
i'm sorry the lights go down what i'm up i'm up what do you what what i'm i'm awake i'm awake i
was man i'm sorry when i was going to see spider-man the second uh nicole kidman showed up on screen i
started going away to la la land just twinkle twinkle land oh so you you just liked like
the couple minutes that you were conscious for well of the of the spider-man it was i mean i
might as well talk about it it was i so i will say this pro tip the way to not fall asleep in a movie
is make sure you go to a movie where the main character has your name also that's right because the amount of miles and i'm like
i'm like fucking starting to doze off and i just hear that name over and over okay i'm here i'm
here all that to say like in the first two minutes i was a little i was kind of i don't know why
sudden like the movie's starting and i'm like what the fuck is happening to me just because
i'm sitting still in a dark room and then dude it's so fucking good the animation is somehow i think better than the first one which was really cool
which is breathtaking but this is like the way they're like um actually modeling things in 3d
so like there are these camera moves within like an animated backdrop like give this really great
cinematic quality to it along with just like the
the sort of the comic book art that they're sort of smashing together because because it's like
this multiverse thing you have some characters that are like sort of drawn in other styles
like you know spider punk who's now my favorite new favorite character uh not just because he's
like a fash bashing anti-capitalist like punk rock person but
also voiced by the legend daniel kaluuya uh and you know obviously ardent arsenal supporter uh
but yeah i i just gotta say it's i'm so like i don't i was i keep telling you this on like what
we talk about like editorial stuff i gotta go to the movies like i have to go it's fun i love going
to the movies i miss it i'm i i'm always rooting
for movies to do well even if they're you know like air i didn't love it but i'm so happy it
did pretty well when it came out sure sure yeah you gotta go you gotta go uh there were so many
it's fun actually seeing you know like i people know i'm notoriously ignorant of the mcu so like when shit happens i'm
huh huh luckily with like these animated spider-man ones like i know i know enough about spider-man
just in general to like keep up with these but every now and then there's like a reference to
the mcu where like the crowd erupts and i'm like part of me was like what the fuck are y'all going
on about and then i'm like right that's the magic of like being engaged or something is like you get these little tidbits and everyone gets so excited people are
getting emotional at times i didn't know why uh but it was a it could just be because i'm
completely disconnected from my emotions maybe that could be it but yeah fantastic fantastic
highly recommend the spider pig make a return yeah john millennia oh man but not like for that real yeah
you don't get a ton of spider pig uh quips uh but lighter ham but it's dope the amount of like other
spiders peoples spiders emerge yeah do they pluralize it as spiders men no they don't is
that they don't well i wish they did yeah yeah really wish they did, but no. There's no Spiders Men.
Issa Rae is fantastic.
It's just great viewing.
And if you don't know anything about the MCU, it's fine.
Because you can watch it and you know exactly
what's going on.
Alright.
Well, you have your recommendation,
which we'll always have a recommendation
for you on this weekend
rewind.
Rewind. Also, this Korean we'll always have a recommendation for you on this weekend rewind rewind oh also this korean netflix show siren this fucking reality show is so wild it's like the most high stakes game of
capture the flag i've ever seen uh it's pretty dope it's like groups of like different these
women that have like they're like firefighters or bodyguards or like policemen or like stunt people
or whatever and they it's it's it's fucking wild anyone who's played like high like capture like
liked playing capture the flag there's no way you could watch this and like it won't that won't
resonate you if you want resonate with you if you watch it yeah yeah um any anything else from the
tiktok slang list that was helpful to you that that you had seen and didn't know what it was?
Accountant.
So at the time, because like a lot of these were like, they start off being like, yeah, we know what a fucking CEO is.
And then there's like accountant, which is the first time I was like, okay.
They said the term accountant blew up after Yuzi Rocky Patera uploaded a video which he explained via a catchy song why he prefers to tell people
he's an accountant rather than saying
he's a quote struggling actor.
And basically it's just sort of like a
you know it's just a stand in for
when you don't really want to explain your job to say like
I'm an accountant but particularly
now for people who make like adult content
or if you're like a sex worker or something
you can it's like shorthand saying
you're an accountant. Okay. Yeah. There we go. And i was like oh i didn't i didn't realize see i would
have been like wait all y'all are accountants like is how i think i would have been if i was
congratulations wow so you're all cpas great um do y'all do taxes too because i i could i could
use some help and then a lot of it's just like aave right where
you're just like yeah we know like like smh or like like i don't like i don't know like other
things like that i hadn't realized seen it as ion i didn't i didn't know ion was i don't know like
you know i don't care about that i thought it was ion like twin ion engines from star wars hey there
he is there he is um yeah he is. Nah, I don't.
But that's what's funny
when you see those things
broken down into standard English.
I don't.
I don't.
And we've talked about the riz,
the meaning of someone with charisma.
Unspoken riz.
Unspoken riz.
Unspoken riz refers to someone's ability to attract people without speaking to them um i got that yeah yeah we both have that to a crazy degree mostly it is
helpful to see it acknowledged and so that people know why people are describing us that way yeah
it's mostly because we we draw them in out of
concern they're concerned for us at first that thing all right them in yeah and i'm like that's
riz they're like no oh okay so you're fine i'm like yeah yeah did you know yeah you fell right
into my trap my riz trap worried about my safety call me riz kifa. There you go. All right. Let's take one more break. We'll come back.
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And we're back. uh people are saying trump might get indicted uh might just get caught in
a rico um potentially yeah i do not think those words are going to be uttered but it says there
there's things that the georgia trump rope signs might be pointing to racketeering charges yeah then they specifically
think the jack smith investigation is you know coming to some sort of conclusion uh some sort
of a charging decision right may be imminent so yeah we you know we don't know we don't know
keep an eye on that one yeah i'll be like yeah. Wake me up when it's actually, when it happens.
Yeah.
Like I want to see, you know what I want to see?
I want to see Trump who can't do his hair and has to go to court.
I know.
A court appearance.
Is it ever going to, that is the, that is the dream.
That is, that's the fucking hair Ron that I need to go straight into my veins would be
like, uh, yeah.
Fucking prisoner Trump being like, woo oh that'd be a messy comb over
man you ain't got hair products oh boy oh boy the other thing is too we mentioned it offhandedly
on like on fridays now that there's like fucking tapes of him saying that he had stolen documents
and like he knows that they're like he shouldn't have them and he knows he shouldn't be sharing
them with people i'm sure i wonder if that accelerated things where his lawyers went to the doj today like hey hey so like this is oh what do
you guys think what are you thinking right now so it'll be interesting to see how reality bends its
way to letting him get away with absolutely no uh consequences right but exactly you know we'll see
we don't know um so there's. There's also, speaking of Trump
being able to get
away with everything,
Chris Licht, who is the
chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide,
he's the guy who came in and was like,
CNN's too woke. We need to
take it back, make it more like
Fox News. He organized
the Trump
town hall, where it was just like trump stand-up special yeah um
so he had also so another good new uh good decision this guy made in the past couple uh
in the past year was that he had given the atlantic's tim alberta just unprecedented months-long access to him just around the clock
for everything like talk everybody talk to him tell him the truth we're good here and he just
dropped a profile that everyone's like oh this might be it for this guy i love that fucking the the fucking hubris of these people oh yeah
man man document everything document everything it's pretty sick what i how i live my life and
like what it's just all a bunch like and everyone that works from hates him yes exactly uh so so
here are some of the revelations backstage in new hampshire last month uh he told so this is before the trump stand-up special he
told former president trump have fun um which alberta is like trump obliged uh he knew in
advance the audience was uh what he called extra trumpy um and everybody at cnn was like are you
fucking kidding me with this guy like what is he is he doing? He's trying, but I mean, we,
we learned that he was trying to make news. So he's trying to do something outrageous,
which is your job as the head of a supposedly trusted news brand.
Uh,
people at CNN think he's projecting this persona of bulletproof badass because,
uh,
that's what Zaslav, our boy for whom a fleabag
sex scene was too much uh wants to see but like it's just he's losing employees like constantly
bad judgment on big moves seems like he's like all his firings and big decisions have not gone well
uh but i i like just like these little personal details at a holiday dinner for his
DC based talent at cafe Milano.
Like spent much of the dinner looking at his phone,
including reading a critical story about him and puck.
So he's just like reading people criticizing him and just like being frowny
face.
Um,
and then he's obsessed with Jeffff zucker who had his job before
him um so oh no this paragraph is great licked who went from 226 pounds to 178 via a celebrity
trainer told alberta why he was skipping a meal i'm a a fucking machine. Oh my God. Working out at his Manhattan gym,
licked,
squatted down to grab a long metal pole lying flat on the ground.
Zucker couldn't do this shit.
Licked said,
clenched teeth,
hoisting the pole with a grunt.
And he's just lifting the pole like without the weights on it.
Oh,
you just mean the fucking like the bar to like bench and
shit i mean that's what i'm assuming like the 45 pound bar that you put the like the fucking plates
oh i love that yeah oh man i mean maybe maybe he's a bit guy maybe these are just bits that
i doubt it continuing like the tom wamsgam story like yeah that seems like
such like the dumbest feat of strength but then like evoking your like nemesis to be like i bet
he can't do this normal thing you're like okay they took a sip from his sports beverage um no
did they say that oh god like that That's what he doesn't think.
Come on, Gatorade, Gatorade.
I can just see him drinking Gatorade so desperately
right after that, too.
Well, now I feel like I gotta read this.
And then finally,
let's talk.
So NASA had a
panel
where they were basically just
like, yeah,
there's UFOs.
There are strange metallic orbs
all over the planet that we can't
explain.
It's basically the upshot.
And so, I mean, we'll talk
more about it. Our expert interview
is with an academic, Avi
Loeb, who is interested
in
the search for extraterrestrial life.
This feels like a big
moment for acknowledging
that there are
these things that we can't explain.
The panel
was just basically... They shared some pictures
of... There was a military drone that captured a picture of the panel was just basically you know they shared some pictures of like
there was a military
drone that captured a picture
of a
metallic orb and they were like
this is not uncommon
we see these all over the time
the quote is a quote we see
these all over the world and we see these
making very interesting apparent
maneuvers and then they've
noted 800
similar cases of metallic orbs uh which is weird right i mean it sounds like because like right
this panel sort of put together because nasa famously does not talk about anything to do with
extraterrestrial intelligence or ufos or uaps or anything like that like they're like we're
interested in things outside of like our immediate planet and so this was kind of like a big moment
because this was wasn't this group basically impaneled to help like nasa determine how they
want to assist with like this research essentially that yeah like now they're being like now we
figured that this is probably worth studying and we're going to come back with like how the best way
to engage with this kind of research is going to be.
Yeah.
And I think like it is important to do this
even if they're not extraterrestrials
just so that we can like kind of clear that
because there is a lot of interest in it
and they have looked at a bunch of these anomalous aerial phenomenon and been able to explain them away.
So they have better tools now to capture this stuff than they've ever had before, which I think is where a lot of this is coming from.
And now we just have to clear out the ones that are...
So this was actually very interesting to me.
They talked about what one astronaut talked about.
He was on a mission in an F-14 Tomcat supersonic jet.
The flight officer in the back seat thought he saw a UFO.
After flying past it, they looped around for another look,
and it turns out it was Bart Simpson, a balloon.
The air is just full of
fucking balloons that you you know you look fucking weird and like don't seem to be there
and he specifically said this environment we operate in is so conducive to optical illusions
and then he showed other videos of unusual objects that had ordinary explanations
three different airplanes mistaken for one glowing troika or once again more weather balloons so
you know i think they're trying to be very balanced and just be like look we want
to figure out what these orbs are that like we can't explain like that that is a like being like
the there are orbs hovering over the earth and they are maneuvering in ways that we can't explain like that that is a like being like the there are orbs hovering over the earth and
they are maneuvering in ways that we can't explain is it feels like a pretty big statement um but i
think they also wanted to put it in the context like maybe it's an optical illusion we don't know
um so right we will be talking a little bit more about that sort of thing on tomorrow's full app, which is going to be expert interview.
And we are going to be hearing from a listener, a couple of listeners about their jobs.
And yeah, it's going to be a fun one.
Thanks for thanks for listening to this one.
Yeah.
This first this first episode of the new format.
We're going to try a couple different things out.
Could be anything, folks.
Gotta buckle up.
You never know.
We might be selling Trump bucks pretty soon.
But in the meantime, yeah.
Thank you for coming on this journey as we break the form for the first time in almost six years or five years.
Yeah.
Whatever.
However many loops around the sun we've done.
Thousands of episodes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, all right.
Back tomorrow with the last episode.
Until then, be kind to each other.
Be kind to yourselves.
Get the vaccine.
Don't do nothing about white supremacy.
And we will talk to you all tomorrow.
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